Month: November 2018

  • The Snow Queen

      Black pencil on paper   © HMH, 1987

  • Modern V. Old-fashioned Writers’ Methods

    Some people believe that writers of old were more accomplished — and wiser — because they wrote by hand. In their opinion, modern authors lack flair because of using PCs. Even worse is it that these ‘modernists’ connect via the internet: such lovers of the quill believe that indie authors spend so much time dallying…

  • Halloween

      Abandoned house of cobwebs Haunted and old. Walk past, Quicken your pace In the dead of the night   What happened here? Who can tell?   Sighs embrace the unwary And whisper dread secrets   Once every year A glow appears Behind broken windows   Wispy forms glimmer In the moonlight And invite you…